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ATTA-MILLS FAMILY CURSE MAHAMA TO BRING OUT ATTAH MILLS OR AUTOPSY REPORT

As a PhD holder, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom must show a bit of “common sense
and intelligence” in the manner he speaks about the death of Prof John
Evans Atta Mills, the late president’s family has said.
“You see, when you call yourself a Dr., it is assumed that you have a
little bit of common sense and some intelligence, but for this man [Dr
Nduom] to be going the way that he is going, I am just puzzled and
marveled. What he should understand – from what my brother said – was:
‘dzi wu fie asem’ – mind your own business,” Mr Samuel Atta Mills,
brother of Prof Mills told Naa Dedei Tettey on 12Live on Class91.5FM on
Monday 19 September.

On July 24, 2012, Prof Mills became the first Ghanaian leader to die in
office, but with the exact cause of death withheld from the public,
speculations have been rife that there may have been foul play in the
former law professor’s passing which occurred only six months to the
2012 polls. Prof Mills’ health had deteriorated by then and he had been
considered too weak to endure the physical demands of campaigning.

At the PPP’s first national rally at the Kawukudi Park in Accra, the
party’s General Secretary, Murtala Mohammed, made a fresh call to the
governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to release the autopsy
report covering the late president’s death to prove their innocence.

“If you didn’t kill Mills and if you are not happy Mills died, produce
the autopsy report. We are challenging John Mahama to produce the
autopsy report of [late] President Mills. The Central Region people
here, I want you to listen to me: if John Mahama comes to your region,
tell him to produce the autopsy report,” he urged.

Mr Mohammed’s comments came within the same week that PPP founder and
flag bearer Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, at a rally in Cape Coast, had said some
NDC officials put on a public show of sorrow with Prof Mills’ demise
but privately rejoiced over his passing, saying it had paved the way for
their electoral triumph in 2012.

He told the crowd at a rally held on Thursday September 15: “Mills was
our kinsman and he became the president. Some people criticised and
attacked him until he died. And some of the NDC people themselves
thanked God that Mills died. Is that not strange? And after his death
they came back here to tell us to replace him with another person from
the Central Region.”

"After all that, they go about provoking us that if Mills had not died,
the NDC wouldn’t be in government today. ... It appears as though they
deliberately pushed him to the seat so they can commit the wrongs behind
him.”

However, Mr Mills, who is the NDC’s parliamentary candidate for Komenda
Edina Equafo Abirem Constituency in the Central Region said his
brother’s autopsy report is “nobody’s business.”

“The guy has passed on, whatever we put out, people are going to
challenge us, why don’t we let him lie in peace, let’s move on. We know
what killed him; we have the autopsy report, what is the big deal? How
come Paa Kwesi Nduom didn’t raise it four years ago when he passed away?
And he waits in an election time? Is this how we run our elections?
Well, he calls himself a Doctor, so he needs to at least exhibit that he
has a little bit of common sense and some intelligence. He needs to
live above this fray. If someone else is saying it [fine]; I don’t
expect it out of this man. He needs to be quiet, he needs to run his
campaign.”